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Doctors Quotes

On trust, treatment, and being believed.

These Care quotes reflect on doctors from a patient's perspective, touching on childhood imagination, the uncertainty of serious illness, and the difficulty of being believed when explaining your own condition.

Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?

Quotes by Aeschylus

I'm the daughter of two Indian immigrant doctors, and I have an older sister and younger brother, and none of us have pursued medicine as a career. We're all over the artistic side of things.

Quotes by Aarti Mann

Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.

Quotes by Zoe Saldana

The golden period for all the castes, including BCs, was when Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy was at the helm. An education revolution was witnessed during that period, when many students had become engineers and doctors.

Quotes by Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy

Care Quotes

Doctors didn't know if I would survive. The cancer was too big to operate on, so they blitzed it with chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

Quotes by Viv Albertine

When I was 24, I co-founded a company called Athenahealth which built the first Web-based software and back-office service suite for doctors' offices.

Quotes by Todd Park

The best doctors and the best hospitals in America, if they cannot get the patient information they need when they need it, it can lead to morbid consequences: Higher mortality.

Quotes by Timothy Murphy

There were symptoms that I saw, and though I went to many doctors and had many tests, no one diagnosed MS.

Quotes by Teri Garr

That all-too-common gap - between where the doctors, facilities and resources are based and where the individuals suffering from HIV live - had to be closed. This is what the Health Extension Program (HEP) was created to do.

Quotes by Tedros Adhanom

Family Quotes

I am a medium. In the same way, doctors are mediums to bring treatment.

Quotes by T. B. Joshua

For lots of us, disabled people are not our teachers or our doctors or our manicurists. We're not real people. We are there to inspire.

Quotes by Stella Young

Regarding themselves as irreplaceable, both Lenin and Stalin tried in different ways to destroy their successors - Lenin through a testament that attacked Stalin and Trotsky, Stalin through purges culminating in the Doctors' Plot of 1953.

Quotes by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Because I work on leukemia, the image of cancer I carry in my mind is that of blood. I imagine that doctors who work on breast cancer or pancreatic cancer have very different visualizations.

Quotes by Siddhartha Mukherjee

There is nothing private about delivering a child with doctors and nurses surrounding you.

Quotes by Shweta Menon

I Am Quotes

I'm a terrible patient, and I find that doctors can be very condescending.

Quotes by Sherry Stringfield

The growing professional disciplines of medical ethics and bioethics have had a profound impact on researchers, bedside doctors, associations of physicians, and government.

Quotes by Sherwin B. Nuland

Though moral axioms to guide the conduct of the practitioner have existed since the beginnings of the profession of healing, Western doctors are most likely to view the Hippocratic Oath of approximately two-and-a-half millennia ago as the first codified set...

Quotes by Sherwin B. Nuland

My mother had a fear of doctors - other than her daughter marrying one.

Quotes by Shelley Berkley

Doctors say there's no such thing as chemo brain, but ask any chemo patient.

Quotes by Sarah Addison Allen

Know Quotes

On December 17, 1984, I had surgery to remove two inches of my left lung due to pneumonia. After two hours of surgery the doctors told my mother I had AIDS.

Quotes by Ryan White

Frequently Asked Questions

What kinds of experiences with doctors are covered here?
It ranges from childhood memory to serious illness. One quote recalls playing with dolls who were doctors on secret missions, while another describes doctors being unsure of survival odds against a large, inoperable cancer before turning to chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
Is there a quote about mental health and doctors?
Yes, one describes always insisting to doctors that the speaker was sane and asking to be released, only to find that the more they tried to prove their sanity, the more doubt it raised. It's a pointed line about how a hospital setting can distort how a person's own words are read.
Does this collection include anything about healthcare policy or public figures?
One quote references an education revolution attributed to a period under Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy's leadership, mentioning many students becoming engineers. It's included here as a direct, sourced statement about that period, described factually rather than as commentary on his politics more broadly.
Why do readers search for quotes about doctors specifically?
Doctors quotes get used for medical-themed writing, get-well messages, and reflections on illness or recovery, which is why this set pairs naturally with Care quotes and Medical quotes for readers building out health-related content.
What other topics complement Doctors quotes?
For readers focused on family reactions to illness rather than the medical side itself, Family quotes fits well, while Medicine quotes suits a more clinical or treatment-focused angle.

For related themes of trust and support, see our Know quotes and Family quotes.